A new Ditty, shewing the wonderfull Miracles of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, which
he did while he remained upon earth. To the tune of Triumph and Joy.
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W Hen Jesus Christ was twlve yeeres old,
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as holy Scriptures plainly told,
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He then disputed brave and bold
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among the learned Doctors:
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Who wondred greatly at his wit,
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As in the Temple he did sit:
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For no man could compare with it,
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his wisdome was so heavenly.
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Then praise the Lord both high and low,
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Which all these wondrous works doth show,
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That we to heaven at length may goe,
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where he in glory raigneth.
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At thirty yeeres he then began
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To rreach the Gospell unto man,
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And all Judea wondred than,
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to heare his heavenly Doctrine:
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Such workes he did as made them muse,
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Among the proud hard-hearted Jewes,
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Yet evermore they did refuse
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to take him for their Saviour.
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Then praise, etc.
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For first of all by power divine,
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He changed water into wine,
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When at a marriage he did dine,
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which made the people wonder:
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Moreover with seven loaves of bread,
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Seven thousand men he fully fed,
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Whereby his glory far was spred,
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throughout the Land of Jury
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Then praise, etc.
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And by his glorious power and might,
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Unto the blind he gave their sight,
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For which the Jewes bore him a spight,
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who sought for to destroy him.
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The man which was both deafe and dumb,
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Which never heard nor spake with tongue,
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By Christ was healed when he-did come:
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whose praise he then pronounced.
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Then praise, etc.
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The woman that was grieved sore,
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With an issue of blood twlve yeeres & more,
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Unto her health he did restore,
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in a minute of an houre:
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The Captaines man that sicke did lie,
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Our Saviour healed presently,
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Although he never came him nye,
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his words alone did helpe him,
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Then praise, etc.
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Likewise he healed the Lepers ten,
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Whose Bodies were most filthy then,
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Yet none but one did come agen,
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him humble thankes to render:
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And he that sicke of the Palsie lay,
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With shaking joynts full many a day,
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The Lord to heale him did not stay,
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but straight his will fulfilled.
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Then praise, etc.
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The halt and lame that could not goe,
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But still remained in great woe,
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Our Saviour Christ did pitty show,
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and make them whole and lusty:
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The man that was with Devils possest,
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And never lived in peace and rest,
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By Christ his Word at length was blest,
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and they were cleane cast from him.
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Then praise, etc.
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The widdowes sonne that dead did lye,
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When Christ our Saviour came not nye,
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He raysed to life immediately,
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unto her joy and comfort.
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Then Mary and Martha made great moane,
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Because their Brother was dead and gone,
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Our Lord put life in him alone,
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and he from grave came running.
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Then praise, etc.
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And more his heavenly might to show,
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Upon the Sea himselfe did goe,
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And never none could yet doe so,
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but onely Christ our Saviour.
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And when the Souldiers with great might
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Did seeke to take him in the night,
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They were not able to stand in his sight,
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till he the same permitted.
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Then praise, etc.
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But yet for all these wonders great,
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The Jewes were in a raging heat,
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Whom no persawsion could intreat,
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but cruelly they did kill him:
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And when he left his life so good,
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The Moone was turned into blood,
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The Earth and Temple shaking stood,
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and graves full wide did open.
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Then praise, etc.
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Then some of them that stood thereby,
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With voices loud began to cry,
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This was the Sonne of God truely,
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without all kind of doubting:
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And as they said, it proved plaine:
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For in three dayes he rose againe,
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Although hee suffered bitter paine,
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both heaven and hell he conquerd.
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Then praise, etc.
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And after that ascended he,
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To heaven in glorious Majesty,
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With whom God send us all to be,
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for evermore rejoycing.
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Then praise, etc.
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